Our diverse communities are set to grow over the next twenty years by approximately 37,000 people. To ensure Council continues to provide places where people love to work, learn and live Council has created a Place Management Framework to guide Council's place making.
In supporting or creating our places we use the following principles:
The Framework can be found here: PMF 2023
The Bakehouse Quarter currently comprises over 40,000 sqm of commercial, retail and entertainment uses with a further development potential of over 20,000 sqm.
Within the precinct, yet adjacent to the Bakehouse Quarter are additional businesses and The McDonald College which has a student body of 450 students and teaching staff of 43.
A solid selection of retail, health and wellbeing, and entertainment outlets including an array of restaurants, bars and cafes, the precinct provides the perfect business and social environment. A range of commercial stock including retail, office, serviced office and industrial is available within this precinct.
Key attributes
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Only 20 minutes via car, bus or ferry from the centre of Sydney and adjacent to Mortlake, Breakfast Point is a waterfront residential estate with a small shopping village including a supermarket, restaurants and lifestyle businesses.
Over the past ten years, this suburb has been revitalised to include a broad range of housing options complemented by state of the art lifestyle facilities. In is anticipated that futher properties will be developed over the coming years.
Several of the historic structures of the Australian Gas Light Company (AGL), established in 1883, remain intact today.
Key attributes
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Cabarita is home to a small neighbourhood centre and waterside dining and recreation facilities.
Cabarita Shopping Village offers residents and visitors convenience shopping for everyday need including groceries, pharmacy and a well stocked cellar.
Within walking distance of the Cabarita Shopping Village are two significant waterside parks, Cabarita and Prince Edward Parks, both providing watersedge dining. In addition, Cabarita Swimming Centre and d’Albora Marina are located within Cabarita Park.
Key attributes
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Majors Bay Road Shopping Village is an elegant, sophisticated and friendly shopping village situated in the heart of Concord. With an attractive leafy streetscape, it is positioned as one of Sydney’s best al fresco eat streets, with many restaurants and cafes to suit all tastes including Japanese, French, Italian, Thai and South American.
This heritage shopping village is complemented with a desirable mix of retail and commercial businesses from speciality food retailers, fashion and gifts, essential conveniences to medical and professional services.
Concord Library and the City of Canada Bay Museum are only a short walk from Majors Bay Road.
Key attributes
Download the Majors Bay Road Place Fact Sheet.
Only 25 minutes via car, bus or train from the centre of Sydney, Concord West provides businesses and investors with many opportunities to prosper.
It is a diverse economic hub with a large regional hospital, industrial zone and two retail precincts.
The Victoria Avenue shopping precinct is adjacent to the Concord West Train Stations and features trendy cafes, a classic pub, as well as everyday goods and services such as fruit and vegetables, dry cleaning, accountants and more. Adjacent to this village is an underpass through to Bicentennial Park.
Key attributes
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Six kilometres from the Sydney CBD, Victoria Road is located on a peninsula bordered by water on three sides with the Iron Cove Bridge and the Gladesville Bridge linking the shopping village with the Sydney CBD and northwest suburbs, respectively.
Known for its friendly, personalised service it is a local convenience centre and a destination for home renovators.
It is identified by many local business owners as the last convenient shopping opportunity along Victoria Road before the Sydney CBD. Birkenhead Point Shopping Centre and Marina is located within walking distance.
With three significant properties redeveloped within the last three years, investors continue to be attracted to Victoria Road.
Key attributes
Download the Drummoyne Place Fact Sheet.
Italian communities and foodies alike from all over Sydney regularly shop in Great North Road for the award-winning butchers, patisseries, chocolate makers, fresh produce and delis. Great North Road is renowned for this experience.
With over 300 businesses positioned in the precinct, every shopping, dining and service need can be met. A financial and insurance services hub, there are many solicitors,accountants, financial planners and other professionals that can assist you.
Ferragosto, the inner west’s biggest street festival takes place along Great North Road, every August. Visit, work, dine, play and stay at Five Dock.
Key attributes
Download the Five Dock Place Fact Sheet.
With a strong industrial history, Mortlake has reinvented itself as a desirable waterside suburb.
Mortlake offers the investor two business precincts: a small neighbourhood shopping village at the junction of Mortlake Street and Brays Road; and along Tennyson Road a combination of light industrial, commercial and restaurants. Businesses servicing consumers benefit from the redevelopment of much of the industrial land into high density residential, resulting in an increasing primary trade area.
Several of the historic structures of the Australian Gas Light Company (AGL), established in 1883, remain intact today.
Key attributes
Download the Mortlake Place Fact Sheet.
Initially subdivided to create a shopping village in 1917, the North Strathfield Shopping Village was established in 1921 and the art deco heritage is largely intact.
The Village predominantly functions as a neighbourhood retail and dining precinct. In 2013, four existing businesses have been operating in the Village for over 40 years, with the average business duration of existing businesses at 16 years.
Key attributes
Download the Concord Road, North Strathfield Place Fact Sheet.
Attracting significant investment from developers and global corporations, Rhodes is recognised as a specialised centre within the Sydney metropolitan region.
In 2011, the Rhodes Peninsula (incorporating the suburbs of Rhodes and Liberty grove) had a resident population of approximately 7,727 people, just over double the 3,713 residents recorded in 2006. The Peninsula is characterised by a predominance of medium and high-density apartment living with some lower density housing in Rhodes East. By 2016, the Peninsula is expected to have a population of approximately 14,000 residents. Nealry 9,000 people are employed within Rhodes.
The Rhodes Peninsula is experiencing a period of significant growth, with more than 40 planning, community engagement, open space and development projects set to be delivered over the next five years, many of which involve the City of Canada Bay, developers and other tiers of government.
Key attributes
Download the Rhodes Place Fact Sheet.